It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

It is only hope which is real and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have hostility is not from God bitterness unforgiveness all of these are attacks from Satan.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

Beauty more than bitterness makes the heart break.

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away they just echo around.

There's a lot of bitterness there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

Hurt leads to bitterness bitterness to anger travel too far that road and the way is lost.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.